Make Family Photobooks to Capture Precious Memories
When I first started this blog, I had a newborn, a toddler, a tween, and soon-to-be teenager at the time. Then before I knew it they all grew up and fast! Now I have two boys in school and two who will be out of high school in about four years!
Lucky for me, I journaled my thoughts about the boys during the early years as soon as they would come to mind. I also took much video and photos. However, now that they are older, the digital images are sitting on CDs, portable drives, cameras, and elsewhere. Thoughts are in notebooks and in document files. With technology constantly changing, you will find yourself doing much transferring of images in an effort to save your photos and scanning and uploading to save heartfelt memoirs. Don't put your photos, writings and videos off much longer, start getting them off of those devices and share them with others--mainly the children and grandparents--they would just love to see that stuff!
Here are some places I have researched to create books (photo as well as traditional books). Please note: I don't get any gifts, incentives or coupons for mentioning them. Feel free to view my work and join me at the following sites where applicable:
1. Create Space - affordable, available to online stores once approved and published.
2. Lulu - a variety of book sizes including pocket style!
3. Smile Books - affordably priced, easy to use.
4. Blog Booker - from blog to book
5. Fast Pencil - write, design and share with others including stores too.
6. Blog 2 Print - turn blog to professional book
7. Bookemon - create your book online and change your blog into book as well.
8. My Publisher - frequently offers discounts, coupons. New customers are eligible for free gift.
9. Shutterfly - variety of ideas you can do with photos.
10. Picaboo - photobooks, holiday cards and more.
11. Blurb - one of my personal favorites, but pricey.
Lucky for me, I journaled my thoughts about the boys during the early years as soon as they would come to mind. I also took much video and photos. However, now that they are older, the digital images are sitting on CDs, portable drives, cameras, and elsewhere. Thoughts are in notebooks and in document files. With technology constantly changing, you will find yourself doing much transferring of images in an effort to save your photos and scanning and uploading to save heartfelt memoirs. Don't put your photos, writings and videos off much longer, start getting them off of those devices and share them with others--mainly the children and grandparents--they would just love to see that stuff!
Here are some places I have researched to create books (photo as well as traditional books). Please note: I don't get any gifts, incentives or coupons for mentioning them. Feel free to view my work and join me at the following sites where applicable:
1. Create Space - affordable, available to online stores once approved and published.
2. Lulu - a variety of book sizes including pocket style!
3. Smile Books - affordably priced, easy to use.
4. Blog Booker - from blog to book
5. Fast Pencil - write, design and share with others including stores too.
6. Blog 2 Print - turn blog to professional book
7. Bookemon - create your book online and change your blog into book as well.
8. My Publisher - frequently offers discounts, coupons. New customers are eligible for free gift.
9. Shutterfly - variety of ideas you can do with photos.
10. Picaboo - photobooks, holiday cards and more.
11. Blurb - one of my personal favorites, but pricey.
For those who work from home...
Article Writing via Internet - What I Do...
Working from home is challenging enough, so you just don't want to do these things to cause more havoc to your already stressful life.
1. Over-eat, sleep or stay up late too much while neglecting your body. This only makes you often tired which will cause you not to want to stick with your business.
2. Avoid setting up space for children to roam. If you don't respect your office space, why should your children?
3. Take personal calls or surf the Internet while you are supposed to be working.
You will hinder your ideas and you will not be dedicated to your business with all the distractions.
4. Lie to yourself about being in business when you know you have done nothing for your business ie.) market, partner with others, edit your work, respond to email, return voice-mails, or plan things like an event, a campaign or something else business related.
5. Exaggerate your skills and services. So many entrepreneurs want to look like those businesses that have large marketing teams, employees, and more. You are in business for yourself, so don't say things about your products or services that potential customers can clearly see or possibly look up about you and your business. If you are the only person at work, but have the resources to help your client then say that. But if you make a claim that "my people" will get that done in 24 hours and don't fall through, you will have an angry client on your hands that just might bad mouth you on the Internet.
6. Pass information around that is unprofessional including offensive material on your social networking page. Potential clients view those pages and they get a good idea what kind of person you are based on what you post up. So if you are gay, white, happy, free, and have no children, yet you post things that talk negatively about women, married couples, blacks, and children, most likely you won't get any loyal customers. Sooner or later you will most likely anger some more people too.
7. Tell everyone you know that you will give them something free or discount your service because your competitor's prices are a little much. You may have yet to make a profit that will pay for all your nice gestures. It isn't difficult to figure out what happens when you offer freebies, undercut competition, and make promises that you may not be able to fulfill one day. You will be out of business.
Useful Sites You Will Want to Check
Business Ideas on a Budget - 10 Legitimate Businesses You Can Start for Under $20
Home Based Business Scams
Ripoff Report | Scams, reviews, complaints, lawsuits and frauds. File a report, post your review.
Nicholl McGuire
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Things You Don't Want to Do While Working from Home
1. Over-eat, sleep or stay up late too much while neglecting your body. This only makes you often tired which will cause you not to want to stick with your business.
2. Avoid setting up space for children to roam. If you don't respect your office space, why should your children?
3. Take personal calls or surf the Internet while you are supposed to be working.
You will hinder your ideas and you will not be dedicated to your business with all the distractions.
4. Lie to yourself about being in business when you know you have done nothing for your business ie.) market, partner with others, edit your work, respond to email, return voice-mails, or plan things like an event, a campaign or something else business related.
5. Exaggerate your skills and services. So many entrepreneurs want to look like those businesses that have large marketing teams, employees, and more. You are in business for yourself, so don't say things about your products or services that potential customers can clearly see or possibly look up about you and your business. If you are the only person at work, but have the resources to help your client then say that. But if you make a claim that "my people" will get that done in 24 hours and don't fall through, you will have an angry client on your hands that just might bad mouth you on the Internet.
6. Pass information around that is unprofessional including offensive material on your social networking page. Potential clients view those pages and they get a good idea what kind of person you are based on what you post up. So if you are gay, white, happy, free, and have no children, yet you post things that talk negatively about women, married couples, blacks, and children, most likely you won't get any loyal customers. Sooner or later you will most likely anger some more people too.
7. Tell everyone you know that you will give them something free or discount your service because your competitor's prices are a little much. You may have yet to make a profit that will pay for all your nice gestures. It isn't difficult to figure out what happens when you offer freebies, undercut competition, and make promises that you may not be able to fulfill one day. You will be out of business.
Useful Sites You Will Want to Check
Business Ideas on a Budget - 10 Legitimate Businesses You Can Start for Under $20
Home Based Business Scams
Ripoff Report | Scams, reviews, complaints, lawsuits and frauds. File a report, post your review.
Nicholl McGuire
Thinking About Adding a Dog to Your Household?
With a mixed age group family whose inexperienced when it comes to caring for a pet, you might want to learn as much as you can about the dog breed you are interested in and not only that, stay away from certain types that just don't make good pets the first time around.
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